Posted on 11/15/2002 6:58:23 AM PST by alisasny
Excerpt from Barbara Walters interview with Al Gore and family, which airs tonight on 20/20 at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT (check your local listings).
The following exchanges, while sure to interest Note readers and historians, actually won't be part of tonight's 20/20 broadcast, so you can read them only here and now:
WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize that while you were in the residence of the Vice President [during the Florida recount] there were crowds of people outside screaming at you. What was that all about?
AL GORE: Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during that 36-day period, and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house all day and all night screaming at the top of their lungs.
WALTERS: What, "Get out!"?
TIPPER GORE: Things like that, yes, and, and sometimes … things that we don't want to say on your program, and, some people saw that they were buses from "churches," but it was organized. The one thing that, that they did mainly was reach the bedrooms of our children, and Albert was still in school locally, and trying to study, so we rearranged, you know, they … kids moved to a different part of the house, and I was trying to think of a way that we could kind of laugh about this since obviously it was out of our control, there wasn't anything anybody could do so I got all the boom boxes in the house and … I remember sort of what the government did with Noriega … I thought we'd try that, and I aimed them at, toward, you know, where the crowd …
WALTERS: The crowd?
TIPPER GORE: … And I put nature sounds on and turned it all the way up. And at least the kids laughed.
AL GORE: There were a few, more than a few who supported us and were offended by the organized chanting round the clock who came out on the other street corner during the day to express their support with signs, and … You know, emotions were running high throughout the country and it was just an unprecedented time.
KARENNA GORE: Well, when we were in the Vice President's house during the recount, it was it was very intense. And one of the things I remember is that there was a … an organized effort by, I don't know whether it was the RNC or it was … it was right-wing groups, it was definitely Bush-campaign-oriented effort to bus in people to have a sort of siege at the Vice President's house, and, so, they were all lining there, screaming, and it was kind of an assortment of groups. I mean, some of them were anti, um, were anti-abortion groups, and some of them were pro-gun groups, and some of them … they all had their different signs. But they were all screaming, "Get out of Cheney's house," the whole time. And I just remember being there next to my dad, because I went for a run, and I ran back through them, and I was very upset when I came into the house. And my whole attitude was, like, "We've got to fight back harder. And where are our crowds?" And my dad, I'll never forget his response. He said, "We have to do what's best for the country, and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness. And he was on the phone, really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the … the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is.
WALTERS: Do you remember the crowds outside screaming?
KRISTEN GORE: The crowds that were screaming outside our house, you know, "Get out of Cheney's house." And other things … of that nature, were really upsetting. It was difficult … It was just very … upsetting that someone would … yell those things at us. It felt … we felt sort of like … trapped in this … you know, little house with all these people yelling mean things. It's no fun. You know, whether you're a child of the person who they're directed at, or anyone else. It … it wasn't a good situation.
WALTERS: Were you scared?
KRISTEN GORE: I was scared that the truth was not going to come out. That's what I was.
After 20/20 and a break for your local news, you can catch Gore on Letterman.
That "little" comment leaves me practically speechless.
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I was just saying the same thing today. Election 2000 ended up motivating our side, not the Dems!
I either missed the part about Freepers or they didn't show it. I hope they didn't say the things that were reported earlier. Liberals always seem so pleasant when they deal with each other, then you see the dirty trick and lies when they deal with us.
I either missed the part about Freepers or they didn't show it. I hope they didn't say the things that were reported earlier. Liberals always seem so pleasant when they deal with each other, then you see the dirty tricks and lies when they deal with us.
i was there both morning & night (whenever i was not asleep or at work) and i NEVER heard any profanity and/or saw any buses unloading pro-Bush/Cheney demonstrators.
the strangest thing i did see was a lady in a mink coat (a PETA member, she said!), screaming her head off for not only albore but ANIMAL RIGHTS! she seemed OBSESSED by the "rights of the poor", as well.
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As one of the proud Florida FReepers, I can tell you that the incident happened in West Palm Beach and was initiated by FReeper, Gene McDonald (aka: "SeekingTheTruth", who showed up with his bull horn and some other FReepers.
They positioned themselves right in front of the platform that was set up for Jackass Jackson to speak from and shouted him down. (I've pinged Gene to this thread, and he can give more details if he likes).
When the whole mess was transferred to Tallahasse, Fl., many of us headed up there and spent the weekend protesting in front of the State Capitol. C-Span carried our protest and I have it on videotape. LOL
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I have the tape. C-Spam gave us pretty good coverage at this particular freep.
Leni
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I know you did because and I saw you do that. And I was one of those rich Republicans who also drove herself there -- in my 1992 Geo.
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